
The Shadows Grow Longer
Christa Andres runs a home for troubled girls. With great dedication, she tries to help girls who have gone astray return to a normal life. She takes special care of Erika, who works as a prostitute and one day runs away from the home. Christa sets out to search for the girl in the red-light district. In doing so, she is haunted by the shadows of her own past. The educator herself used to work as a prostitute. When she meets her former pimp, he tries to exploit his knowledge in a perfidious way and blackmail Christa...
- Year: 1961
- Country: Switzerland, Germany
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: Praesens-Film, CCC Filmkunst
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- Director: Ladislao Vajda
- Cast: Barbara Rütting, Loni von Friedl, Hansjörg Felmy, Luise Ullrich, Fred Tanner, Carola Rasch